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[varshax]

“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill,”

-M. K. Gandhi

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[shortindiangirl]

Profound. I wonder how many Americans would identify ?

[sankalpa]

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence"

-M.K. Gandhi

[varshax]

It is in the same vein .... I do not see any disconnect between these two quotes. Did you mean to point something out ?

Nonviolence is *completely* different from impotence.
To know the anger, feel it and overcome the urge to be violent because you truly believe peaceful means are a better solution - to me that is non-violence.

[sankalpa]

I agree that they potentially complement each other. However, we often see non-violence as a proxy for fear or impotence. Consider, for example, speaking out against the government or the 'establishment'. I'm sure we all have felt the urge to smash a few heads (Chief Ministers, Heads of Departments, etc.) at some point of time in our lives (maybe because we've strongly felt that non-violence would not affect them in any way) - but we choose to remain silent, or maybe lodge a token protest.

I saw Rang De Basanti some days ago - it's an interesting movie (apart from it being too long, having too many songs and too much melodrama) and touches upon this issue vaguely. Don't you wish that you could sometimes kill some of these politicians instead of seeing them go scotfree after perpetrating crimes of the highest possible degree?